CompuServe Messages

Paul, Yah, I spend about six hours a day on various nets. One thing I think I've mentioned here before is how fascinating it has been to watch the changing attitudes towards the Amiga and Amiga owners over the years. In some places, people still don't want to hear about the Amiga, and Amiga owners are still seen as annoying religious fanatics. Those are tied together, in my opinion. People are usually turned off by totally fanatical behavior. On the other hand, in some places more and more people seek out information about the Amiga or are at least willing to hear about it. For example, here on CIS. Why? Because instead of raw all-is-great fanaticism, they now usually get back the calm straight dope, bad and good combined. I think that's partly because of the more mature (aka "older" 🙂 group of people here. Another part is because many people here also own other systems. But I ramble. I think Dvorak was simply using Amiga fanaticism as an analogy to OS/2 fanaticism. Back when OS/2 first came out, there were hot religious debates in some PC groups about multitasking vs non-multitasking, etc. Sound familiar? <grin> I don't know if that's what you meant, but… cheers – kevin